topic Re: No shell in Operating System - HP-UX

No shell

tigm7103105q1 — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:36:55 GMT

Hi I need you help!!
I've a user in hpux 11.i and when she/he try to access the message appears.
"no shell"
"Connection closed by foreign host"

I verified the permission in /etc/passwd /etc/group /usr/bin/sh /bin/sh, etc.

what append.

Re: No shell

Rodney Hills — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:41:00 GMT

Field 7 of /etc/passwd has shell user is assigned. Be sure file /etc/shells has that shell in its list.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: No shell

Michael Tully — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:43:29 GMT

Be sure that a correct shell is defined in the /etc/passwd file for that user. Field 7 of the users entry line has this information.

Re: No shell

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:49:58 GMT

You can also try running the 'pwck' command to verify the integrity of the passwd file. If there is a problem pwck will output it to your terminal.

# pwck

Re: No shell

Bill Hassell — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:05:03 GMT

Check the permissions on your top level directories (ll -d /*). Someone may have tried to 'improve' security by changing 755 for most of the opsystem directories to something else. Is the user running a non-standard shell? Hint:

grep ^user_id /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1,7